How many of you out there say that you have the innate ability to speak in front of an audience? How many of you out there will honestly admit that you have some sort of trepidation speaking in front of an audience? How many of you feel that you have the ability and power to persuade an audience with no problem? These are just some of the questions that you have to honestly ask yourself before you take the reins and proclaim to be an effective speaker. Presentation skills training will give you the tools to hone the areas where you need to be a more proficient speaker.

41% of people were afraid of publicspeaking, and only 19% of people stated that they were afraid of death. Okay so you have 41percent that have a fear of public speaking, which is almost half of the challenge. Now you have an engaging introduction to hook the audience and it better be good or you will lose their attention right from the start. In order to engage your audience you will need to present your tile as a solution as to what your audience came to listen to in the first place. The second thing is being able to deliver a clear organized presentation – an effectual persuasive message with credible evidence and sound reasoning. The title then 3 or four main points with well supported ideas ( facts, data , examples or experiences) to validate. Then there will be the summary or conclusion that needs to be carefully iterated and tied back to the title – just like a close in a sale.

Non-verbal communication is more essential than a great many people acknowledge it adds to more than 50 percent. Turning your back to the group of onlookers, moving around excessively or taking cover behind a work area is immense. Signaling likewise can impact your discussion. Being excessively forceful in your motions, drumming your fingers or notwithstanding gnawing your nails are likewise cases of awful non-verbal communication. Yet, notwithstanding when you aren’t making a terrible showing with regards to, enhancing your non-verbal communication can have a major impact. Particularly in transit, the group of onlookers gets your discussion. It can have any kind of effect between a decent talk and really inducing individuals.

Lastly one should be adept at knowing how to use visual aids skillfully. Most people DO NOT know how to present a power point effectively. I witnessed a presentation given by an account executive from a national agency and it was surprised that they did not follow a few simple rules of no more than 5 words per line and no more than 5 lines of copy, distractive animation, wrong color background. If your audience reads the slides because they are peppered with information or are distracted by color or animation then guess what ? they will hear nothing you are saying.

Hopefully a good healthy examination of what you think you may need to develop in order to be a more effective speaker or presenter will lead you to check out a presentation skills training workshop where you can assure that you have everything in order to become a truly effective speaker.

Leaders Speakers, a leadership soft skills training company located in Charlotte NC was requisitioned to facilitate one of their 2 day Master Presentations Workshops last week on October 13-14, 2017. The Childress Klein School of Real Estate is located at the UNCC campus at 320 E. 9th Street Downtown Charlotte. The Director of the Master of Science in Real Estate (MSRE) Program was looking for a company to facilitate a public speaking workshop for their students so that they could be prepared to deliver strong presentations in the business world. Leaders Speakers has performed many public and corporate public speaking workshops over the past few years and has helped many people overcome the obstacles that hold most people back from being able to speak in front of an audience. The workshop has also helps individuals to become more persuasive to deliver winning presentations using a unique formula taught in the 2 day Workshop.

The class of 20 students that attended the Public Speaking Workshop at the Childress Klein UNCC campus went through a series of exercise starting with how to give an introductory speech on themselves to serve as a benchmark and also have them get used to keeping track of their time speaking. Timing is a very important component as the audience is very sensitive to speaking time, going over will disengage the audience. The students then learned importance of how to build rapport with the use of stories. Stories not only engage the audience but substantiate an occurrence with a specifics who, what, where and when something happened to prove or sell your point. Finally the students were taught to use a story as a component for the formula to persuade. The formula was actually developed by Abraham Lincoln at the Gettysburg address in which Lincoln only spoke for three minutes but was noted as one the most famous speeches because it was so successful in getting the country united. The simple formula has the speaker tell a story then shows a benefit that people will receive if they take a prescribed action by the speaker after telling the story.

After the class learned how to present a persuasive speech they were tasked to develop a four minute and then a final six minute presentation. They used their class skills to come up with a “solution” based title to hook the audience then come up with three main points ( the audience will typically not remember more than three) then to use a story or example to back up each point and then finally summarize their presentation in a concise manner to close the audience.

The best way to develop a winning memorable presentation is to design in a way that it presents a solution to which the audience came to obtain a benefit for which they were seeking to get from the speech or presentation.

You don’t have to be a famous key note speaker or a famous motivational speaker like Tony Robbins or Joel Osteen just to give a great speech. Public speaking to many people when performing such an act in front of an audience is every daunting and even more so intimidating.Fear is the biggest factor when it comes to performing a presentation in front of a sizeable audience let alone delivering a talk that you have created that you think may not be up to par for the audience.

A lot of people will take sky diving lessons then do the actual jump to face their fears. When they have completed a jump they tend to be more confident in everyday life simply because they have conquered a fear which in most cases eliminates other fears that they may have had. Public speaking in front of an audience can be of similar value in the same way. Think back to when you were a kid and you finally had to confront the neighborhood bully, once you pushed back or chased the bully away you conquered a large blockage and were then less fearful of many things. When you stand up in front of an audience to face that proverbial bully and attack that speech or presentation not thinking of how perfectly you want to deliver it but to actually perform it with you true self you will accomplish your goal of eliminating fear itself.

There are some tips that can help you be more fearless when you are speaking in front of large or even small groups. I myself actually have an easier time speaking in front of large groups for whatever reason. First of all knowing that ninety percent of your nervousness does not show to the audience is a known fact. Most people when they speak will get more nervous if they think that the audience can see some of those nervous things that go on inside or outside of your body like sweaty palms, nervous stomach or racing heart just to name a few, but the truth is that they can’t. Another biggie is that a lot of people get intimated by the audience. A good way to eliminate this fear is not to imagine them naked, but to scan the audience for friendly or receptive faces. This will give you the confidence that your presentation is being well received.

So if you want to kill two birds with one stone, get out there and give that presentation or speech at work, join a toastmasters club or volunteer to speak for a cause that you have some interest in or event some type of local city government or PTA and the list is basically endless and you will kill your fear.

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If you have ever been impressed with a speaker’s performance it is because they know how to build rapport with the audience. Most of the renowned speakers build rapport by integrating stories into their presentations or speeches. So how does this simple form of story telling engage the audience? You are probably thinking well anybody can tell a story right? These skilled speakers will draw on relative experiences or trials that they have gone through that relates to the title of theme of their speech which is why you came to the presentation in the first place. For example “how to overcome public speaking anxiety” was the topic de jour and most people are afraid of speaking in public, so they show up at the seminar to listen how they can overcome this issue.

The speakers of presenters have their speeches planned and organized precisely to hook you so that you will be on the edge of your seat most of the time. So how do the speakers magically draw you in? Well they use the skill of building trust and rapport. When you trust someone you will listen to them because they have established credibility through rapport. What is good rapport? When a speaker tells a story they will draw on a life experience that they had to overcome an obstacle to produce a successful outcome. The story itself will engage the audience because there will be many instances in the story that the audience can relate to, when this happens the audience will experience a commonality with the speaker and hence feel that they can relate therefore building the trust factor. For example if the speaker is telling of his or her first experience speaking in front of a group whether it was in high school, college, PTA, work ect.. most of the audience if not all has had a similar experience. The speakers goes on to tell how his or her palms got sweaty , lost train of thought or froze up on stage so further relating to the audience. By the time the speaker gets through with their speech the audience has gained total “buy in” because they identify with the speaker and furthermore will believe that they will be able to overcome their fear of public speaking just as the presenter did because he simply built rapport with the audience which created trust and belief.

Stories are a very powerful means to attract attention of an audience because in addition to building rapport they also and should provide a specific time of occurrence, who specifically was involved and where it happened and finally what the outcome was. These aforementioned components establish factual credibility to further prove evidence to the story. Using rapport in your presentation properly will surely capture the audience for a memorable presentation of speech.

It is often easy to forget exactly how important goal setting is to self improvement. We can have lofty ambitions for changing or improving who we are, but if we don’t begin the journey with one step as Confucius once said and then break it down into smaller plans, the journey might begin to seem impossible.

The reason goal setting works as a means of self improvement is two-fold: the first part is obvious it allows us to break a really complex task down into small components that are easier to follow, more detailed, and less overwhelming. The second reason why goal setting is an effective means of self improvement is that it provides us with constant motivation. Whenever we accomplish that goal or objective on the way to the greater goal, we feel as if we have made progress, and it emboldens us to work towards the next goal in line.

Before anyone can begin goal setting for self improvement, he must determine what it is about himself that he would like to change and for what reason. For some people, the ultimate act of self improvement would involve quitting smoking cigarettes. For others, weight is a self improvement issue for which they are most concerned. For others, it might be something different, like being more assertive, more financially secure, or more charitable.

Of course, no one knows our faults better than we do. If we’re overweight, we usually know just horrible it makes us feel, even if no one around us even really notices it. If we drink beyond what could be considered careful moderation, we know how it makes us feel and what it has done to our relationships.

Now, once you have identified what it is that you would like to improve about yourself, you can begin the goal setting process. Start with the ultimate goal (i.e., to become a better speaker in front of a crowd). Next, depending on how large your ultimate goal is and how long it will reasonably take you to accomplish begin goal setting for objectives with timelines. For these smaller objectives, it is a good idea to tie them to actions, rather than results. If, for instance, your goal setting objective is research and read material that will help you overcome your fear of public speaking, or how to become a more persuasive speaker. Then you may want to look for public speaking classes online or in your city that offer classes that will help you overcome your public speaking anxiety.

You may find and read printed material to help you get rid of your public speaking anxiety ,but feel like you have only completed 30% of your goal setting objective then you will want to accomplish another small goal setting plan would be to attend a public speaking class. Public speaking classes will give you the opportunity to get involved and practice what you will learn to give you more confidence. These small or part actions will serve as bit pieces to help you accomplish your goals of becoming better at public speaking. If you followed the goals you set out to accomplish for the time period : did I read the proper materials to help me with my public speaking fear, did I attend public speaking classes as to have been tutored and practice public speaking, and did I practice my art of presentation giving ? So, to reiterate, successful goal setting for self improvement consists of three things: creating long term goals, short term objectives, and re-evaluating the plan to make sure it is more realistic.